I'll finish a body of work and think, "Okay, I got nothing. That was it. I'm done." And then you'll turn a corner and be like, "Oh my God!" And it keeps happening. I feel so lucky. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in this increasingly… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
